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Slackware Plays Nicer Than Ubuntu With Humble Botanicula Bundle

If you follow the Humble Bundle series of game packages, or if you’re one of the unlucky individuals to get your mitts on its latest incarnation, you might be privy to a bit of controversy regarding the package. The controversy, simply put, involves the fact that all of the games in the package require defunct, unsupported Adobe products to function

If you follow the Humble Bundle series of game packages, or if you’re one of the unlucky individuals to get your mitts on its latest incarnation, you might be privy to a bit of controversy regarding the package. The controversy, simply put, involves the fact that all of the games in the package require defunct, unsupported Adobe products to function.

With regards to Adobe Air, this product is no longer available in 3rd party, non-free repositories for many distributions, making the game difficult to run for an average user. Though there is hope, in a galaxy far, far away.

…If you use Slackware.

Powerbase reader Dugan Chen has a fantastic blog called Some Slack. Politics aside, this nice archive will get you going on several past & present entries from the Humble Bundle series– even Botanicula… If you’re a gamer using Slackware, this seems to be the most express way to get into the Humble Bundle action on your Slackware machine. Dugan offers these as slack-builds, and all seem to be readily available from his dropbox account.